Current TV still on Comcast after sale to Al Jazeera

Current TV, the news and public affairs channel sold to Al-Jazeera by a group that includes former Vice President Al Gore, has been dropped by Time Warner Cable but continues to be available on Comcast, the Houston area’s largest cable provider.

A Comcast spokesman declined comment on the matter, but Current TV was still up and running Thursday on Comcast channel 107 in Houston and is expected to be available on the cable system throughout the length of its contract with Comcast, which prior to the sale to Al Jazeera owned a small stake in Current TV.

Prior to the Time Warner announcement. Current TV was available in about 60 million U.S. television households. Al Jazeera, which is owned by the govermment of Qatar, has announced that Current TV will be replaced by a new channel to be called Al Jazeera America.

As for Time Warner, the company said in a statement, “Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible.”

Current TV also is available in Houston on DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and Dish Network.

Meanwhile, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said she would be leaving her Current TV show “The War Room,” according to the Associated Press.

In a Facebook post, Granholm says her “agreement with Current was for the duration of the election (and the sale).” She said “The War Room” will air “for the next few weeks through the transition, but after that” she plans to go “back to teaching, speaking and other things.”

Houston radio station KPFT (90.1 FM) has aired an hour of news each morning from Al Jazeera English since December 2010.

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Outrageous……Gore would rather sell to this Islamist propanganda tool than Glen Beck? This is the same group who claimed that Israel got a heads up on the 9/11 attack and removed all the Jews from the Twin Towers. Fortunately Time Warner Cable refused to carry this anti-American filth.

This is why we need an a la carte cable system. I am repulsed by this news, but my neighbor loves it. I love ESPN but she doesn’t think she should pay for four channels of ESPN. Ditch this antiquated system and allow us to buy the channels we want and let us live in freedom from buying something that we find objectionable.

If Comcast allows this anti- American new channel, oh excuse me, Al- Jazeera AMERICA, BS they hate every thing we stand for- Don’t you remember the hatred they we spewing after 9/11 -your channel showed it! This capitalistic country ( Which they would love to blow up) helped make it possible for you to succeed. Have some onions or let the petitions begin!

I hope that Comcast will drop this anti-American channel. As someone else said, they just want to blow us up — that or force us all to become Muslims. They have no respect for the freedoms which we enjoy in this country. It’s hard to believe that Al Gore, who almost became president of the United States, sold out to Al Jazeera! Who’s side is he really on? When Osama bin Laden wanted something publicized, he went to Al Jazeera.